72 The University Science Bulletin. 



Dorsal hump low and much inflated; it scarcely narrows from the base to 

 just before the apex where it rounds in to form a carina. Anterior margin 

 rising just back of the humeral angles and extending from there half way to 

 the apex of the pronotum. The height is about equal to the whole length 

 and it rounds down to the pronotum proper at both extremities. Front much 

 elevated above the level of the eyes so that the ocelli are farther from the 

 base of front than from each other. 



Color. Yellow with the punctures fuscous, sometimes coalescing into brown- 

 ish fuscous spots, giving the whole insect an irrorate and mottled appearance, 

 with little regularity of pattern. Usually there is a semicircle of lighter shade 

 back of the humeral angles and a light spot on middle of hump. There is a 

 pair of large, straggling black marks above and within the eyes, some brown 

 on the inner nervures of corium, and a smoky brown cloud at apex. 



Distribution. Ball reports this species from Iowa and from Kan- 

 sas. Van Duzee records it from Illinois and Fmikhouser from New 

 York. In Kansas it has been taken in Pottawatomie and Mont- 

 gomery counties. 



Hosts. Ball gives elm as a host; Funkhouser reports it from oak. 



Telamona lugubris Ball. 



Telamona lugubris Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, p. 179, 1903. 



The original description follows: 



Form of reclivata nearly, slightly shorter and stouter built and with a lower 

 and longer hump and lacking the markings of that species. Obscurely greenish 

 brown. Length: female, 11 mm.; male, 9.5 mm. Width, 5.5 mm. 



Dorsal hump of moderate size, arising just back of lateral angles; anterior 

 margin sloping back, forming a right angle with the inclined crest, posterior 

 margin perpendicular or slightly overhanging. Base of hump occupying a 

 little over two-fifths of distance from humeral angles to apex of pronotum. 

 Humeral angles blunt and obtuse, about two-thirds as long as the eye. 



Color. Pale yellow, the more or less darkened punctures giving the insect 

 a general grayish cast with still darker shadings on the lateral faces of the 

 hump and sometimes on the apex of pronotum. 



Distribution. Ball reports this species from Iowa and also from 

 Pottawatomie county, Kansas. Doctor Funkhouser has specimens 

 from New Mexico. 



Hosts. Ball gives scrub oak as the host. 



Telamona decorata Ball. 



Telamona decorata Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, p. 179, 1903. 



The original description follows: 



Smaller than lugubris, with a shorter and more rounding hump. Yellowish 

 fuscous with the hump deep testaceous brown. Length, 9 mm.; width, 4.5 mm. 



Dorsal hump sloping uj) from both front and rear, crest rounding, highest 

 just in front of the middle, hump occupying scarcely two-fifths of the pronotum 

 from the humeral angles back. Humeral angles short and blunt, about tw)- 

 thirds the length of the eye. 



